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Recently, in the released Global Gender Gap Report 2026, what rank has India received among 145 countries worldwide?
131st
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131st
India retained its 131st rank among 145 countries in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2026.
The Global Gender Gap Report 2026, released by the World Economic Forum on September 16, 2026, evaluates gender parity across four critical dimensions: economic participation, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment. Despite achieving a gender parity score of 64.5 percent, India continues to lag behind the global average of 69.2 percent. The persistent gaps are particularly noted in economic participation and political empowerment, which remain the lowest-scoring dimensions for the country.
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in Cologny, Switzerland, founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab. Article 14 of the Indian Constitution ensures equality before the law, while Article 15 prohibits discrimination on grounds of sex, forming the constitutional basis for gender equality policies in India.
India rank: 131st out of 145 countries
Overall gender parity score: 64.5 percent
Global average gender parity score: 69.2 percent
Political empowerment gender equality in India: 24.5 percent
A is correct тАФ India has retained its 131st rank out of 145 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index 2026 released by the World Economic Forum.
Remember the sequence '131' by associating it with the '1-3-1' growth pattern: a 4.3 percentage point improvement since 2006, highlighting that while progress is slow, it is incremental across two decades.